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" Cosmo . Still Garcia comes not to explain ? He has join d A group of dancers ; but with such a look As makes him seem most fearfully alone . Horror sits in his hair A—as grief in mine "—p . 61 . We might open the tragedy of graphic imagery , such as the almost at random for examples following : —
" Garcia . These blows do harden me , and make the deed , Appalling once , seem common as a cloud Wherein great faces frown and fade ; ***** Terror hath dashed his torch before mine eyes Till hell seems ashes ; paralysed despair Lies carv'd in ice , outstretch'd before my path . "—p . 96—98 .
This description of Cosmo is Grecian grandeur : — conceived in the very spirit of " Passato . 'Tis Cosmo yonder ! Darkly and tall he stands , Like an extinguished beacon of the night , Whose watchman hath been cast into the sea . "—p . 108 .
There is an incidental testi- given in the conversation of mony to the great grief as well Berta and Christina after the as strength of the Duke , very banquet :- — sweetly and most pathetically
" Berta . I saw him several times turn his head aside , with such a look , just as though he would burst into tears , —ay , become all tears ; and even at the height of the merriment the recollection of it once or twice quite made my heart ache . Christina . And did the Duke shed tears , Berta ? Berta . Net , I didn ' t see one : for just when I thought they were coming in a flood , he shut his eyes very , very close , and when he opened them again the tears seemed all to have gone inward . ' —p . 70 .
This is the solitary instance in which these ladies are linked to the passion of the drama . The scenes in which they are engaged are generally written as though in sport , or as a relief to escape from the overwhelming workings of the imagination ; a great mistake , where all ought to have been highly finished . The character of the painter and librarian are well supported ; those of Cornelio and Dalmasso still better . Want of space
prevents our noticing many passages in illustration of them , which we had marked for extract , and some scenes of great merit ; as , for instance , the passing of the guests to the festival , and the scene between Cosmo and the poor scholar , in which the portion of history read by the scholar ; describing the death of Sesostris , is a noble piece of composition . Zacheo , the pirate , is a man of fine though rugged nature , rendered reckless awd niischiev-
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200 Cosmo de Medici .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/56/
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